Progressive notes Flashcards
_______ was partly a reaction against laissez-faire economics and its emphasis on an unregulated market
Progressivism
_______were journalists who uncovered abuses and corruption in a society. Nicknamed by Theodore Roosevelt
Muckrakers
______ and ________concentrated on exposing the unfair practices of large corporations
Ida Tarbell and Charles Edward Russell
_____reported on vote stealing and other corrupt political practices of political machines
Lincoln Steffens
_______published photographs and descriptions of the poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighborhoods in NYC in How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
_____pressured the state legislature of Wisconsin to pass a law requiring parties to hold a direct primary
La Follette
______is a vote held by all members of a political party to decide their candidate for public office
Direct primary
_______is the right of citizens to place a measure or issue before the voters or the legislature for approval
The Initiative
_______ is the practice of letting voters accept or reject measures proposed by the legislature
The referendum
_____is the right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office
The recall
_____the 17th amendment was ratified and added to the constitution
In 1913
____amendment allows for the direct election of Senators
The 17th
_____ convinced the delegates at Seneca Falls that winning suffrage for women should be a priority
Stanton
_____Amendment granted citizenship to African Americans
The 14th
_____Amendment granted voting rights to African American men
The 15th
Many states began passing ____,requiring young children to be in school instead of work.
Compulsory education laws
_____set minimum standards for light, air, room size, and sanitation and required buildings to have fire escapes.
Building codes
______required restaurants and other facilities to maintain clean environments for their patrons.
Health codes
Roosevelts reform programs became known as_____
Square Deals
